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and it wasn't just us, we had help from public and pd. everybody was planning a very helpful hanld i was great. >> the fire chief says given the extent of the blazes he's not sure a swifter response would have made much of a difference. >> just after a natural disaster and earthquake, tornado, hurricane, people who left homes in a hurry are now anxious to get back so see what, if anything is left. many will get devastating news. some will not. vic lee is live with that story. vick? >> i want to you take a look behind me. let me step aside here. we're on the other side of the canyon. the explosion and fire happened. and there has been a lot of activity there. all day. firefighters busy mopping up. and there is a lot of evacuees and survivors passed by here where i'm standing hoping to get a glimpse of their homes. walter showed me images he shot just before he decided to run. the explosion happened just blocks from the home. the houses across the street were already burning. >> this is just a boom. i pell to the ground. i looked out of the
and it wasn't just us, we had help from public and pd. everybody was planning a very helpful hanld i was great. >> the fire chief says given the extent of the blazes he's not sure a swifter response would have made much of a difference. >> just after a natural disaster and earthquake, tornado, hurricane, people who left homes in a hurry are now anxious to get back so see what, if anything is left. many will get devastating news. some will not. vic lee is live with that story. vick?...
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first amendment protects us all. the koran burning guy, i don't think it dignifies us spending my time. all you do is give him the platform that he would like. i'll stay away from that. >> we thank you for yertainly a. >> thank you. >>> and now for a check of the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, good morning. >> good morning. last weekend we were tracking hurricane earl. there is a drop storm igor, but that's well out in the atlantic. no concerns for any land areas. so it's a pretty simple forecast this this weekend. a little bit of light rain and thunderstorms heading through the tennessee and ohio valleys today. by sunday, that begins to arrive on the east coast. but much of the country will see a dry, warm, and a pretty nice weekend. really from the west coast especially through the northern plains. th >>> good morning. craig herrera, on saturday morning, we do have sunshine for us. mostly sunny this afternoon and in through sunday in fact, it's the middle part of the weekend into next week we coo
first amendment protects us all. the koran burning guy, i don't think it dignifies us spending my time. all you do is give him the platform that he would like. i'll stay away from that. >> we thank you for yertainly a. >> thank you. >>> and now for a check of the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, good morning. >> good morning. last weekend we were tracking hurricane earl. there is a drop storm igor, but that's well out in the atlantic. no concerns for...
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in this case they're using the internet. as a website safe and well.org are asking anyone who's been affected by the fire to sign up so that their family members and friends for trend of their cake and look on the web site and see they have indeed come checked into the evacuation center and they are alive and well. people are being given a free phone internet should not just to use those communications for whatever purposes they need the to sign up on the web site to make sure their family members and friends know they're ok. in san bruno kron 4 news. >> a lot of people still very much rattled by the gas flow explosion even know it's been an hour since that happened. people like eric who you live a block away? >> the block and have from the explosion it was terrifying yesterday traded some like an airplane coming down almost like a plane coming in for a landing. to someone go way and is there for probably two minutes to more and then this explosion conditions into our neighborhood. clearly i could see flames a thousand feet
in this case they're using the internet. as a website safe and well.org are asking anyone who's been affected by the fire to sign up so that their family members and friends for trend of their cake and look on the web site and see they have indeed come checked into the evacuation center and they are alive and well. people are being given a free phone internet should not just to use those communications for whatever purposes they need the to sign up on the web site to make sure their family...
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they told us that yesterday, they told it to us outside in the street again today. they smelled gas for days in that neighborhood before the blast. robert lyles shows us some neighbors still smell is tonight. >> reporter: ken, consider. this just over an hour ago i stood outside of a home in the crestmoor section of san bruno and it is literally blocks away from what is now being described as ground zero. i lay out the distance because i want you to know as i stood there i could still smell gas in the air and not only smell it in the air as you're about to see, pg&e crews were beneath that house looking for a gas leak and the folks who called that place home say it has been that way for weeks. flashlights and gas texting meters pg&e crews search the 2535 lexington looking for a gas leak. this would be ordinary until you consider 2535 is just three blocks from where more than 30 homes were incinerated by a pg&e ruptured gas main last night. >> it's scary because that could have been around here, you know, or it could have been right in front of my house. >> reporter:
they told us that yesterday, they told it to us outside in the street again today. they smelled gas for days in that neighborhood before the blast. robert lyles shows us some neighbors still smell is tonight. >> reporter: ken, consider. this just over an hour ago i stood outside of a home in the crestmoor section of san bruno and it is literally blocks away from what is now being described as ground zero. i lay out the distance because i want you to know as i stood there i could still...
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they were at a disadvantage. >> we uses everything we had. foam, water, we said we just tried to contain the flames, tried to keep it in a plume. that was our objective and obviously it was so powerful it blew right through. >> reporter: it took crews as long as an hour and a half to turn off the flames from the gas line buried three feet underground. >> when you get that much heat sometimes you aren't going to succeed. you know at that point you -- we call it defensive mode and pull back. reassess, make sure nobody will get hurt and then just try to protect anything we can. >> reporter: he credits crews with working fast to shut down the delivery and smaller lines. the blast also ripped out a waterline cutting the fire department's supply. put a delay. we didn't have much success with the water putting out the fire. we readjusted the units to keep exposure down and waited for the flame to be put out. >> reporter: despite that neighbors generally praised them. >> i thought they were great. >> reporter: jim said firefighters came together in a
they were at a disadvantage. >> we uses everything we had. foam, water, we said we just tried to contain the flames, tried to keep it in a plume. that was our objective and obviously it was so powerful it blew right through. >> reporter: it took crews as long as an hour and a half to turn off the flames from the gas line buried three feet underground. >> when you get that much heat sometimes you aren't going to succeed. you know at that point you -- we call it defensive mode...
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let us make a maxxinista out of you! >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> we want to show you these images from the san bruno disaster. a man took this video with his cell phone on his balcony before he decided to run for safety. another man shot this video from his cell phone from his sister's house on clairemont drive just minutes after the blast. he says just driving to her house was terrifying. >> my hands were on the steering wheel. immediately the steering wheel turned to like hot rubber. my skin started perspiring inside the car, and it felt like i was in an oven cooking alive. >> he saw two women running from the blast area, one badly burned. he drove them to a nearby fire station to get some help. and there was one arrest in san bruno overnight. a man caught looting one of the burned homes. he was also charged with assaulting an officer and arrested after trying to make a break for. it he is the only problem we are aware of. >>> the call for blood from the hospitalized fire victims
let us make a maxxinista out of you! >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> we want to show you these images from the san bruno disaster. a man took this video with his cell phone on his balcony before he decided to run for safety. another man shot this video from his cell phone from his sister's house on clairemont drive just minutes after the blast. he says just driving to her house was terrifying. >> my hands were on the steering wheel....
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sherry hu with us now. you talk to some who, while they are not hurt, they have lost everything else in their lives. >> reporter: they have. and it's so difficult when you have to start again from scratch, allen. it is dinnertime right now here at the evacuation center. but a lot of the evacuees have been here practically all day. they are waiting for a list to be released so they can find out if their homes are either burned to the ground or if they are still standing. >>> reporter: nelson alvarado couldn't get home after work last night. and now he may not have a home at all. >> the explosion was three houses down from our house. so -- >> reporter: his parents and extended family may be homeless, all 11 of them. it is simply overwhelming. >> can't really think straight. i don't know -- i really don't know. i don't know what to do. i don't know what to thin. >> reporter: judy escaped with only her life. >> the fireball at the corner coming at me so i just ran. >> reporter: she lived in her san bruno home f
sherry hu with us now. you talk to some who, while they are not hurt, they have lost everything else in their lives. >> reporter: they have. and it's so difficult when you have to start again from scratch, allen. it is dinnertime right now here at the evacuation center. but a lot of the evacuees have been here practically all day. they are waiting for a list to be released so they can find out if their homes are either burned to the ground or if they are still standing. >>>...
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it's right behind us. the grim task of figuring out what happened as search crews go home to home, looking to see if there's any for victims happening right now. right before us at this time. >> and we have established last night, all day today, how extraordinarily generous people are being and as we pointed out, what the red cross really needs right now to help these people the most, is cash. once again, the bay area is stepping forward. cheryl hurd is live at cappuccino high school where there's a fundraiser going on right now. cheryl? >> reporter: they definitely need cash, tom. but they also need a sense of community and that's what cappuccino high is providing for this community right now. they need to be together to talk about this horrible tragedy. it's just getting under way here at the high school, about 100 people are inside and they're really excited about what's about to take place here. they're pulling together and making spaghetti and making signs and folks feel at home. and that's exactly wh
it's right behind us. the grim task of figuring out what happened as search crews go home to home, looking to see if there's any for victims happening right now. right before us at this time. >> and we have established last night, all day today, how extraordinarily generous people are being and as we pointed out, what the red cross really needs right now to help these people the most, is cash. once again, the bay area is stepping forward. cheryl hurd is live at cappuccino high school...
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when it finally opened, i also used my points for... car repair. [ male announcer ] use your citi thankyou points for almost anything, even local charities. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >>> recapping our top story, at least four are dead and 50 injured after the massive gas explosion. seven of the victims in critical condition. we're learning that 44-year-old jacqueline greg and her 13-year-old daughter were among those killed. the third victim has been identify as 20-year-old jessica more rap less. in a7 severely damaged. >> obviously, stay with nbc bay area and nbcbayarea.com. we also have slide shows and video online. and we'll be updating the latest all weekend long. as we leave you for two very happy days, our hearts and prayers here go out to everyone there. [ woman sighs ]
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and it wasn't just us. there is help from public and pg&e. >> the scene was similar to the earthquake in october, 1989. the quake ruptured a water main in the ma reba district of san francisco. firefighters, police and residents teamed up to lay down thousands of feet of hose line to get water from the bay to the homes engulfed in flames. as it did then, the san bruno fire chief says delay cost them precious time. he can't say if it caused more homes to burn, but will say firefighters did the best they can to save homes and lives. and residents agree. >> this is just a fantastic job. i do. i've lived here 46 years. never seen anything coming together like this, before. >> he saw a lot of police cars. and ambulances and fire trucks so... i think that it was pretty good. >> we're one of the only tv stations to interview one of the four firefighters injured in this fire. captain jeff whitaker whom you just saw said they suffered kmaigs and smigs and expected to make a full recovery. >> thank you. and tonight t
and it wasn't just us. there is help from public and pg&e. >> the scene was similar to the earthquake in october, 1989. the quake ruptured a water main in the ma reba district of san francisco. firefighters, police and residents teamed up to lay down thousands of feet of hose line to get water from the bay to the homes engulfed in flames. as it did then, the san bruno fire chief says delay cost them precious time. he can't say if it caused more homes to burn, but will say firefighters...
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tell us what you can about the explosion that shook all of us yesterday. >> it is a remarkable failure because it really shouldn't happen, given all of the protocols in place and all the things that happened to have such a fail-year you wonder. with such a catastrophic failure somebody punched a hole in one of these mains and caused a spark but that doesn't appear to be the case here. something failed in such a catastrophic way that the valves are maybe a mile, two miles apart so now all of this highly compressed gas which is under several hundred pounds of pressure per square inch is venting to the atmosphere. it catches on fire. it becomes a blow torch. it has to work out and while that was happening it was burning up that particular neighborhood. generally speaking, we don't know really what happened. we know there was a significant failure and generally speaking has been my experience in covering all kinds of disasters it's a chain of events rather than a single event but there is plenty going on that raises questions. one of which was, conversations by several people who said prio
tell us what you can about the explosion that shook all of us yesterday. >> it is a remarkable failure because it really shouldn't happen, given all of the protocols in place and all the things that happened to have such a fail-year you wonder. with such a catastrophic failure somebody punched a hole in one of these mains and caused a spark but that doesn't appear to be the case here. something failed in such a catastrophic way that the valves are maybe a mile, two miles apart so now all...
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he's with us all the way. i think what's important for me also to add just in closing, is that we need answers. we need answers to the incident. the community of san bruno needs answers. the people of california need answers. we need to know why this happened, and we need to know how this happened. and we need to make sure that this never happens again. i'll repeat myself. i was just down there. it is still devastation and it must be fixed. we will continue to monitor this evening as the evening goes. we will be back tomorrow. there will be more search dogs. there will be specializing in these areas to see if we find any more fatalities. last but not least, we must continue to pray for the families and for the victims. thank you. next, we'll have our secretary. >> good evening, and thank you all for your patience. i want to give you an update on where we are in terms of the damaged and destroyed homes. we have completed the inspections with building inspectors out there, tagged the homes. we were able to get t
he's with us all the way. i think what's important for me also to add just in closing, is that we need answers. we need answers to the incident. the community of san bruno needs answers. the people of california need answers. we need to know why this happened, and we need to know how this happened. and we need to make sure that this never happens again. i'll repeat myself. i was just down there. it is still devastation and it must be fixed. we will continue to monitor this evening as the...
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come join us please! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: very quickly, a pop up store, it's something that we all should know. what is that? >> it's a temporary store that they set up for a night or a week. it's a temporary location. >> jimmy: how fun is that? you have your own store. >> and qvc is putting it together tonight, because it's the fashion night out. >> jimmy: cool. well, i'll be stopping by. i will have a drink with you guys and get some jeggings. [ light laughter ] more with the kardashian when is we return. we will play a quick game. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ where other hammers can only dream of going, the craftsman hammerhead goes everyday. driving home nails quickly and easily in the tightest spaces. more innovation, more great values. craftsman. trust. in your hands. when you buy the hot new samsung fascinate with its super amoled screen. get a free samsung intensity, a free blackberry bold or any other phone in our lineup. don't miss out. offer ends soon. buy a samsung fascinate and an
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thanks for joining us. i'm kris sanchez. federal investigators and the people who survived the san bruno blast will return to the nabd this morning looking for the same thing. answers to how could this happen. we have live team coverage today in the bay's bob redell has a story of the people who live there and lost so much but we begin with christy smith with the latest. >> reporter: good morning to you. you know, ntsb investigators are beginning their work but they have already met with pg&e for sometime and they asked for an extensive history of this pipeline. things like excavation work around it that may have perhaps damaged it. but they say it will take time to get to the bottom of why this pipeline exploded and the fire that followed it leveled a neighborhood. here's what we know t. 30-inch gas pipeline was installed in 1956. investigators will send part to a lab in washington, d.c. for analysis. the toll is staggering, four dead, 52 people injured, seven people hospitalized with critical burns and there are still thre
thanks for joining us. i'm kris sanchez. federal investigators and the people who survived the san bruno blast will return to the nabd this morning looking for the same thing. answers to how could this happen. we have live team coverage today in the bay's bob redell has a story of the people who live there and lost so much but we begin with christy smith with the latest. >> reporter: good morning to you. you know, ntsb investigators are beginning their work but they have already met with...
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also, they are telling us that despite their searches, using the dogs and everybody through that neighborhood today, they have found no more victims. so we know that there are four people confirmed dead as a result of this. undoubtedly this disaster put the emergency crews to the test last night. and we certainly got a lot of e- mails from people wondering in our pictures, our live pictures, why aren't fire crews moving in? why aren't they fighting the fire? don knapp shows us things were really out of their control for a while. don. >> reporter: there is no question about how quickly firefighters jumped on this. in fact, this one firehouse just within blocks of ground zero, those firefighters were there right away. when they got there they said what can we do? this is overwhelming. and really what they had to do was wait for pg&e crews to turn off the pipe. the gas line pipe. and that took about an hour to an hour and a half. >> reporter: within minutes of the first call at 6:12:00 p.m., firefighters were on the scene facing the fiercest flames they had ever seen. >> i have been in the servi
also, they are telling us that despite their searches, using the dogs and everybody through that neighborhood today, they have found no more victims. so we know that there are four people confirmed dead as a result of this. undoubtedly this disaster put the emergency crews to the test last night. and we certainly got a lot of e- mails from people wondering in our pictures, our live pictures, why aren't fire crews moving in? why aren't they fighting the fire? don knapp shows us things were...